Geometry Wars™ 3 Evolves! Cryengine finishes their OpenGL Render, SteamOS makes with the fonts, and the world premier of Brick Simulator 2015 Turbo Extreme Pro-am Alpha The beta. Then Freedom Planet faces our CHAIRQUISITION! All this, plus your hate mail.
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Steam
- http://steamcommunity.com/groups/idlemastery#announcements/detail/203007488879621804
- http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/598198356180374889
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/371530/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
- http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=246110
- http://blog.gameagent.com/geometry-wars-3-gets-free-evolved-upgrade-on-mac-and-linux/
- http://steamcommunity.com/games/269210/announcements/detail/118564995870955520
News
- https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/844925/unix-graphics-announcements-and-news/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-352-21/
- http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/r9?utm_campaign=fury-takeover&utm_medium=hero&utm_source=amd&utm_content=ch20150616&utm_term=en-us#
- http://www.cryengine.com/news/update-from-the-team-cryengine-381-is-here-adding-opengl-linux-and-oculus-rift-support
- http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Microsoft-Announces-Xbox-One-Elite-Controller-Windows-10
- https://groupees.com/unite
- https://github.com/AADProductions/FRONTIERS
- http://explore-frontiers.com/?page_id=40
- https://github.com/motet/baldr
- https://plus.google.com/+VennStone/posts/NgycN61GVZk
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Steam News:
Colour Key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Idle
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/idlemastery#announcements/detail/203007488879621804
- In short, you no longer get steam trading cards until you put at least two hours into a game
- This is good, as it forces you to wait out the refund period until Valve starts giving you things that you can financially profit for.
- Idlemaster itself is a piece of software used to collect steam cards, if you hadn’t figured that out yet
- This is just a heads up to their user base.
- Alright lets say I’m using all 600W-organs on my PSU.
- Say 0.10 per kilowatt hour.
- So take .6 (KWH) X .10 (price per KWH) X 24 (hours) X 30 (days in month) = $43.20 #mathsbitches
- How much are you making off cards, Brad?
- VALVe, learning the hard way the implications of their features.
- Don’t get me wrong, I love that they have a refund system in place now.
- But introducing it like… Well, like VALVe introduces things, people are going to find ways of breaking and/or exploiting them.
Liberate the fonts!
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/598198356180374889
- Will I finally be able to read through the Steam forums without my eyes immediately scouring the page, looking for bad kerning?
- If Yo u’re on e of th o se peop le who h ates bad kerning, do I ha ve a su rpris e fo r you
- My eyes were not very appreciative of that!
- O h r eall y ?
- If Yo u’re on e of th o se peop le who h ates bad kerning, do I ha ve a su rpris e fo r you
- Still, security fixes are always welcome
Legends of Pixelia
http://store.steampowered.com/app/371530/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
- Please to be explaining why this game is worth 15 bucks?
- It’s a crappier looking binding of Issac, without the weird shit that made BOI memorable and entertaining
- It’s not worth $15 and certainly not while in it’s in Early Access.
Massive Update
http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=246110
- None of that seems to fix any of the issues I had with the game, which I assume were design choices and not bugs.
Geometry Wars™ 3 finally Evolved (just released for Linux)
http://blog.gameagent.com/geometry-wars-3-gets-free-evolved-upgrade-on-mac-and-linux/
- **Please note that updates for the Mac/Linux versions are expected in mid-April**
- TWO MONTHS LATER….
- Still no 1080? Really?
- I mean, sure it would be nice to have, but these are shapes maaaaaaaaahn. Stop being such a quadrilateral
- Sooo, it can do 4k but not 1080p?
- It can do 1080p just fine for me.
- Better late than never I suppose.
We need a
http://steamcommunity.com/games/269210/announcements/detail/118564995870955520
- The item chat thing was one of the nice features of Diablo 3. Good to see more games adopting it
- Ah, running backwards simulator.
News:
- Not much to really talk about with this release. New OpenGL extensions, added hardware support and bugfixes.
- WHAR MIR support?!11!
- Yay! They fixed the nvidia-settings -l command throwing a hissy fit and resetting the driver configs entirely.
- I just realized, getting actual fixes to your problems in drivers must be a brand new thing for you
- It is!
- I just realized, getting actual fixes to your problems in drivers must be a brand new thing for you
DirectX® 12, Vulkan™ & OpenGL® 4.5 APIs
http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/r9?utm_campaign=fury-takeover&utm_medium=hero&utm_source=amd&utm_content=ch20150616&utm_term=en-us#
- For the Windows drivers.
- That statement can sum up most of AMD’s driver efforts
- This is a list of things the hardware can support but FK all if we will ever see it.
Somebody owes us a game
http://www.cryengine.com/news/update-from-the-team-cryengine-381-is-here-adding-opengl-linux-and-oculus-rift-support
- Oh hai star citizen. How’s your sex life?
- They will come up with some middleware issue.
- They can’t exactly claim funding issues.
- Still, better late than never. One less excuse for cryengine games to not be on linux
- (Kinda want Blood Dragon)
YOLO contolla
http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Microsoft-Announces-Xbox-One-Elite-Controller-Windows-10
- SDL2, baby.
- “The real disappointment is its D-Pad, though. It just cannot reliably send a single direction without sometimes accidentally sending others. “
- It’s been like 10 years and they still can’t get the d-pad right.
- I much prefer the DualShock d-pad over most other controllers’.
- Yeah, sony really got that design right
- I like the bottom paddle thingies.
Desura Bundle
https://groupees.com/unite
- While I’m all for this, most games on Desura well ..belonged there.
- Not really much to say other than that
- These games aren’t too impressive
- The wording on it,though
- In support of devs impacted by the Desura failure
- It’s like a big slap across Bad Juju’s face!
Open FRONTIERS
https://github.com/AADProductions/FRONTIERS
- Guy can’t host the full game because he doesn’t necessarily have rights to all of the code he’s using
- Last game I ever backed on Kickstarter.
- Open sourcing a Unity game, though
- That’s gotta be a first!
Quad sim
https://github.com/motet/baldr
- Linux only \m/
- I guess this is useful for people who have never flown.
Brick Simulator 2015 Turbo Extreme Pro-am Alpha ..the beta
https://plus.google.com/+VennStone/posts/NgycN61GVZk
- Kickstarter in 3.. 2..
CHAIRQUISITION:
Game: Freedom Planet
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/248310
Devel: GalaxyTrail
Engine: Multimedia Fusion
Price: $/€14.99 – $16.99 CAD
Wazzat: Prepare the snatcher!
Makes with the working
V-
J-
P-
Total-
Shiny / Sounds
V-
- It’s a pixelated mess.
- No resolution options so it’s a scaled pixilated mess.
- Even at 4M (yes, I measured) it still looks like molten pixel goo.
- And what’s up with that transition animation from running up a ramp to level ground.
J-
- This game takes a lot from the sonic the hedgehog playbook
- The running in this just looks so slow though. How do you fuck that up?
- The voice acting is Okay
- Seriously, I think Yuji Naka is gonna sue somebody
P-
- Look at all the hipster pixel!
- Voice actors recorded in different places.
- Some characters sound louder and crisper than others.
- The music is kinda like Sonic’s except more annoying
- All the “hmph!” “typhoon” “yah!” got this game muted within the half-hour mark.
- I can’t give it 1 chair, because the graphics and the sound are there and you can see/hear them.
- But I’ll give the lowest possible because they’re terrible!
Total-
Control
V-
- I had to commit some fuckery to get the Xclone to work.
- Was intermittent controller support listed on the store page?
- It “works” with the XClone but every movement or button press is considered a suggestion.
J-
- Tried with both a Dualshock 3 and Two different 360 controllers. Neither were detected. Steam sees them though, as do most other games
- Standard two button run and attack scheme
- However, if you expect me to platform without a controller, you get one chair
- The third xbox controller finally worked. The controls are decent enough. However, you still get one chair for making me go through all that work
P-
- Sonic-like platformer that in 9 minutes ignored over 10 of my jumping keystrokes.
- Controller? Fuck your controllers!
- Neither the DualShock with Xboxdrv or the NVidia Controller were detected.
- What’s that, you’d like to reassign controls? Aha, fuck you!
Total-
FUN
V-
- This is a shameless Sonic clone.
- It looks worse and handles worse er er #moreworse
- It captures nothing from the original and the real kicker … it’s slower.
J-
- Let’s just ignore for a second that this is a two bit sonic the hedgehog knockoff
- You expect me to platform without the use of a controller.
- The game falls short of capturing the sonic experience.
- Worst of all, it’s just boring. And for a game, that’s criminal
P-
- Running the risk of pissing all over someone’s favorite furry game
- And trust me when I say I have no issue with fursons and their fursonas.
- This could have been a competent Sonic & Knuckles clone.
- It has the two characters with slightly different abilities that allow you to reach different parts of each level and beat bosses a different way.
- Unfortunately, whatever positives it may have had are knocked right back down with graphics that make the Genesis look competent, incongruent voice-acting, and borderline non-functional controls.
- $15 when it’s not on sale, fuck no!
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Final –
Hate Mail:
Dragons
http://slexy.org/view/s2nialzDiR
- Ok, brilliant. Sure. So these guys are so incompetent as to leave a busted, abandoned build on their main EARLY ACCESS BRANCH THAT PEOPLE WHO BUY THE GAME ARE GOING TO DOWNLOAD AND PLAY. Do you see the problem here Brad?
- Especially now with refunds in place.
- Also, someone doesn’t watch Homestarrunner
